July 22, 2009

So it's official...Yahoo! is acquiring Xoopit and we're psyched to
bring our technology and our people to participate in building a next
generation webmail system with the Yahoo! Mail team. When we started
Xoopit, we had a vision of making email more useful, social, and fun. To accomplish our goals, we brought together an absolutely outstanding
group of people from our wicked engineering team to our sagacious
investors to create a company that we love dearly, and products that we
wanted to see in the world. We, as founders of Xoopit, want
to thank the rest of the Xoopit team for helping craft our vision into
an ongoing reality. We've been honored to work with first-class
engineers and designers, who have put as much heart into our small
company as they have into our huge set of product offerings. Moreover,
we want to thank them for making life at Xoopit in our beloved San
Francisco Mission the most unique, creative, and productive work
experience that we've been involved in.

The Xoopit team today sees this acquisition as an exceptional path for
us in achieving our vision. Over the last few months, we have left
every conversation with the Yahoo! team thinking that together we can
wow the world. We now get to unleash our ideas on the future of email
to a huge global user base. To the Yahoo! Mail product &
engineering VPs, John Kremer and Jason Titus: we love your commitment
to being the best mail operation on the consumer web and look forward
to becoming a part of your organization and completely rocking the
house.

What does this mean for our many users? We acknowledge you all as the
backbone of our service, giving our work meaning and giving us constant
feedback over the last couple years. If you're already using My Photos
in Yahoo! Mail, you'll see the product continue to improve and become
more integrated into your Yahoo! Mail experience. If you're a Xoopit
for Gmail user, that service will remain active for the time being.

Everyone here is excited and ready to bring photo mojo to more
inboxes around the world! We hope you'll come along for the ride!

June 05, 2009

Control is not just the name of Janet Jackson's platinum third album— it's what you want when you're dealing with all the photos that come through your inbox. Today we're announcing a couple great new features in My Photos for Yahoo! Mail that give you some of that control.

Favorites is just what is sounds like: You can now simply mark any photo as a favorite by clicking on the Favorite button in the toolbar above it. All those photos show up in the Favorites tab on the home screen of My Photos, so you can skip right to the best stuff from your years of family and friend pictures:

We've also added a much-requested fast delete feature. Want to get rid of pictures that come from mailing lists or friends that just won't stop sending you not-safe-for-work-or-anywhere-else images? Just leave your mouse over the image for a moment until the red delete icon appears in its top-right corner. You can hide batches of images quickly this way, and if you delete a few from the same sender, we'll even ask if you want to hide all of their photos permanently.

April 09, 2009

Sometimes I host parties. At those parties, sometimes, a lot of wine is consumed, and sometimes a lot of pictures are taken. I want to share those pictures with the people who were there at the party, but there are too many photos to attach to email, and they're—ahem!—too private to share on Facebook. Now I have a alternative that works, directly inside my Yahoo! Mail: Photo Pages from Xoopit's My Photos application.

Our team has been hard at work on this new set of features, which we're proud to release this week for Yahoo! Mail. Xoopit's My Photos application is now not only the place to see all the photos that you have in your email, it's the easiest place for you to share private photos with your friends and family. Upload and send out piles of pictures of your new baby, photos from your dinner parties, or anything else, without worrying about attachment limits or distant acquaintances seeing them.

The receiver of the shared photos will get a link to a beautiful page with just the photos you want to share. (You can always deactivate that link if you want to.)

Best of all, all the uploaded photos become part of your My Photos collection in the application, so you can keep them and share again them with others later.

February 13, 2009

Xoopit for Gmail now lets Gmail users immediately see and set Facebook®
status messages and view the profile photos of their Facebook friends
while reading mail, using Facebook Connect. Need something to say in
reply to someone? Now their Facebook status is right at your
fingtertips. Not sure what a new contact looks like? No need to do a
web search, you often get their profile picture right next to your mail.

Activating Facebook inside Xoopit for Gmail is simple.

1.
You can activate your ability to set your Facebook status messages
inside Gmail by clicking on the new Facebook 'F' icon in the upper
right hand corner of Gmail. Click on the Facebook Connect button to
login to your Facebook account.

2. Set your status on Facebook by using the 'F' icon which you used to login to Facebook Connect.

3.
Your Gmail Messages with people who are also on Facebook will now
contain their Facebook profile photos, status messages. Facebook
profile photos and status messages are located to the right of your
Gmail messages in the light blue "In this conversation" box. If you click on 'more
info' you can also see the user's birthday and other information like
mobile phone numbers.

Note,
you can use these features
without signing up for the Xoopit for Gmail indexing service. You do
however have to sign in via Facebook Connect. And as with all Xoopit
for Gmail features, you can use this on Gmail, Google Mail and Google
Apps accounts.

Have fun using Facebook with Xoopit for Gmail and as always, please send us feeback!

January 05, 2009

Happy New Years to all of our readers and users! We're very excited about what we have in store for you in 2009. To kick off the year we launched support for Gmail's new themes. Xoopit for Gmail now blends seamlessly into all of the new looks for Gmail — from Mountains to Pebbles to Tea House. Now if only we knew what a zoozimp is.

To see the new look, please upgrade your plugin. And if you don't have Xoopit for Gmail, just download it to get started!

December 15, 2008

Today we
launched Photos by Xoopit for Yahoo! Mail as part of their new smarter inbox.
Photos by Xoopit adds a beautiful social photo browser to
Yahoo! Mail. Whether you are trading photos from a recent soccer game
or browsing through a ten year old Yahoo! Mail account, you now have
access to a whole new view of your inbox.

With Photos by Xoopit, you can browse photo attachments and links to photos people have sent you from services such as Flickr,
Picasaweb, Shutterfly, and Kodak without having to dig through all your
emails. Over the coming weeks, we will also roll out more sharing features to help you post your
photos to social networks such as Facebook or your blog.

Yahoo's
announcement today is the beginning of their roll
out. If you want to experience Photos by Xoopit for yourself, please signup here.

We're excited to work with the great folks on the Yahoo! Mail team.
Congrats to them on their launch! They have a great vision for how to create a compelling mail platform
for their over quarter of a billion users. We're psyched to be a part
of it. And we're even more excited to welcome Yahoo! users to Xoopit!

November 25, 2008

Do you feel the need for speed? Then try out Xoopit's new photo
browsing experience. Xoopit's updated photo browser is the fastest way to find, browse and share photos in your email. We also resolved some of the confusion on
how to get back to Gmail from viewing photos in Xoopit. The new release
helps a lot on that front as well. If you click from the photo bar or
from the search results, we will show the photo in a modal dialog box.
This allows you to easily just close the box or click on the greyed out
Gmail to get back to what you were doing. And you now always see the
context from which you launched Xoopit. Let us know what you think!

November 13, 2008

Throughout the day we diagnosed and fixed the problem behind delays in email processing today. Thanks again for your patience today. By morning time accounts should be caught up on all new mail. For our newest users, Xoopit will be indexing your oldest mail until its all caught up.

Just wanted to let folks know that we're running behind on indexing email today for new and existing users, so you may not be seeing new media show up in Xoopit. Our apologies for the inconvenience. We'll let you know when we're back up to speed. Thanks for your patience.